Establishes a family health plus sponsor buy-in demonstration program for qualified aliens in not more than 6 social services districts and which shall have no more than 5,000 participants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5838
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, JACOBS, GOTTFRIED, V. LOPEZ, CLARK --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, GLICK, MILLMAN, ORTIZ, SCARBOR-
OUGH, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social
Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a
family health plus sponsor buy-in demonstration program for qualified
aliens
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 369-ee of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
3 2-c. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the depart-
4 ment shall establish a family health plus sponsor buy-in demonstration
5 program in not more than six local social services districts and shall
6 provide health care services to not more than five thousand persons.
7 Such demonstration program shall provide eligibility for health care
8 services pursuant to this title to qualified aliens, as defined in
9 section 431 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
10 Reconciliation Act of 1996(8 U.S. Code 1641), whose sponsors have signed
11 an affidavit of support pursuant to section 213A of the Immigration and
12 Naturalization Act if the qualified alien is otherwise eligible pursuant
13 to subdivision two of this section during the periods of time for which
14 the sponsor has made family health plus buy-in payments to the depart-
15 ment of health. The department of health shall promulgate rules and
16 regulations establishing family health plus buy-in rates; provided,
17 however, that such rates shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the
18 cost of the family health insurance plan coverage provided to the quali-
19 fied alien pursuant to this subdivision.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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